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Square peg, round slot perspectives

'To know another's language and not his culture is a very good way to make a fluent fool of one's self.' ~ Winston Brembeck

I've watched hundreds of Latin ...

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Why soft power starts with seeing the friction perspectives

The soft skills that were enough five years ago aren't enough anymore. And I don't mean languages, though fluency matters. I mean the ability to understand how ...

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What's The Loop System™ and why it works perspectives

I built the Slot System™ first. The harder question was what shape the other side would take.

I kept coming back to something small: the difference between my ...

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Slots v. Loops™ & The Lasso Way perspectives

Ted Lasso is back, and I won't pretend I’m not delighted.

I remember watching the previous seasons and recognising my own work as a diplomatic interpreter in T...

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Why I Follow the Othello Principle perspectives

Confidentiality is at the centre of the interpreting profession and drives interpreters to guard the content of conferences, meetings, depositions, and medical ...

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What's the Slot System™ and why it works perspectives

I moved to London in 2015 and did what any newly arrived Argentine in a new city would do: signed up for everything. 

One of those things was my local book clu...

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Argentine Spanish, LatAm, and why I sound like this perspectives

People occasionally ask why the Spanish on this site sounds distinctly Argentine rather than what they call "neutral." The short answer is that there is no su...

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The much-coveted back effect perspectives

Over the years, I have noticed there is a very curious phenomenon that happens in every meeting or event where good interpreting is provided. I call it The Ba...

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The decade of observation that built Slots v. Loops™ perspectives

Some systems arrive as ideas. This one arrived as a pattern: noticed once, then again, then so consistently that ignoring it stopped being an opti

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Slots v. Loops gives both sides of the visit the cultural logic they're missing.

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See the friction. Close the gap.